Finally, I wanted to try some long exposure stuff, but I didn’t have anything too exciting to capture at 9:30 at night. It’s still raining in the burg. Too yucky to get ambitious enough to go out or anything, so I pull out the tripod to take a few photos in the dark. Have you ever tried it? No? Check this out… almost 10:00 PM on a dark, dreary night I set-up my camera with an ISO of 1600 on a tripod. I click. Then I get a cup of coffee and give the hounds a treat. About that time, I finally hear the shutter response and know the Farm Bureau Coop has been exposed.
It’s like night vision goggles only sexier. And the stuff on the left — that’s not smoke. The tree in the front yard had limbs that wouldn’t cooperate by just being still, so I took one inside the house next.
If the little photographer in you went to bed about an hour and a half ago, try it out tomorrow night. Fun stuff! And one more — only this one with a flash…
Ben: There’s a huge amphibious creature on the sidewalk!
Me: A what?
Ben: A big amphibian lizard!
Me: Silence — imagining something like out the ‘Creature of the Black Lagoon’…
